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- Drake Levin guitarist dies at 62
- big blend of jazz classics
Classical Music/pera Listings
New York Times
(Schweitzer) NEW YRK GUITAR SEMINAR (Wednesday and Thursday) Now in its ninth year the New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes College the New School for Music offers master classes workshops and public concerts. The first public concert is a performance by the Newman and ltman Guitar Duo Pablo Cohen and the bandoneonist Daniel Binelli on Wednesday evening. But you could do worse than to turn up a few hours early to hear Michael Lorimer’s lecture-recital devoted to Mexican guitar music that afternoon. n Thursday afternoon the Cuban guitarist Rene Izquierdo gives a lecture-recital on Cuban guitar music and that evening the Brazilian guitarist Fábio Zanon plays the seminar’s second faculty recital. ) The lecture-recitals are at 4:30 p.
New Music Tuesday: ‘Rock of Ages’ revives big hair and bigger …
New York Daily News
From those acts “Ages” drew as many wimpy power ballads as air-guitar-loving rockers. As it turns out the true drawback to “Ages” has nothing to do with music at all. Dialogue from the script keeps interrupting the songs ruining any sense of flow and baffling anyone who hasn?t seen the show. It can be as annoying as a DJ who won?t stop talking over the song. Then again the notion that we?d want to hear these particular songs again at all comes as something of a surprise.
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Coil LLC’s Electric Guitars Leave No Tone Unturned
PR Newswire (press release)
Rather than rewiring them as many guitarists do he connected each pickup to a circuit board in the back of the guitar. That circuit board is equipped with small jumpers or pegs that can be set into different slots to configure the pickups to almost any combination to produce various sounds. “Paul Reed Smith was one of the first guys to come up with a custom switch to give you all the permutations available” says Paul Schein guitar guru for Chuck Levin’s Washington Music Center. “What he [Jacob] has done is take it to the next level. Here is how you get these two coils in parallel these in series. These are the five or so I want. That’s a cool thing because it allows people to go in and configure the guitar.
MUSIC | Slick Brits: The Heavy at the Fine Line
Twin Cities Planet
The band was led by falsetto-crooner Kelvin Swaby who comes off a bit like a slimmer version of Cee-Lo Green especially in some of the band?s darker more tortured-sounding material; for example in ?Bruckpocket?s Lament? the bluesy lead track off Great Vengeance and the evening?s highlight. The slow-burning murder ballad really allowed Swaby to show off his soul man?s pipes prompting an audience singalong. The song also contains a mournful blues guitar line by Dan Taylor that sounds as if it was lifted from John Lee Hooker?s own arsenal. The group are also complemented by a fantastic drummer in Chris Ellul as well as by shaggy bass player Spencer Page.
Drake Levin guitarist dies at 62
Los Angeles Times
The band’s 1965 hit “Just Like Me” prominently featuring Levin’s double-tracked lead guitar is on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s list of “500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. “I’ve lost my dear friend my Raider buddy and the music world has lost a guitar icon” Volk said in a note posted on his website. Drake Maxwell Levinshefski was born Aug. 17 1946 in Chicago and after his family moved to Boise Idaho he began to gain recognition as a musician with bassist Volk in the Surfers. Nebraska-born Revere also had moved to Boise where he formed the first incarnation of the Raiders in the late 1950s. That edition of the group charted a top 40 single with “Like Long Hair” in 1961 making it Boise’s best-known rock band.
big blend of jazz classics
San Francisco Chronicle
Always looking to extend his instrumental techniques and musical reach Small had a high fifth string added to his upright bass so he could move up into cello range. He worked with luthier Mark Garza to design a six-string electric bass – with two higher strings – to give him more melodic and chordal possibilities. The instrument enabled him to develop techniques he calls “a kind of classical guitar-electric bass hybrid. I was trying to have more a pianistic feeling. He plays it sitting down the instrument resting on a foam block in his lap that bears the weight and frees him up. He puts his left foot on a classical guitar foot rest. Small’s innovative pressing and plucking techniques owe something to the methods he picked up from the Asian string players he played with in workshops and performances at Tanglewood Music Center and Carnegie Hall in 2004 as part of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble.
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